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Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty. He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey ''enforcer'' for the Philadelphia Flyers. But fame is fleeting. Now in his thirties and at the end of his playing career, Felix tries to make a go of it as a player - coach for a Finnish club. As the lone Canadian on the team, he is an outsider with a reputation that takes on a life of its own. When a controversial play brings his comeback bid to a screeching halt, Felix is faced with his own obsolescence and begins a tragic descent into disillusion and despair.

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"Participant à un championnat international, une équipe de jeunes hockeyeurs se trouve en butte à de multiples actes de sabotage. Une intrigue pleine de rebondissements." Réf. Sélection de livres pour enfants et adolescents 1998-1999.

Dans le cadre des Olympiques junior, les Carcajous de Chicoutimi se rendent à Nagano pour disputer un tournoi dans le Big Hat Arena. Stéphane, Sim, Anou et les autres profitent de leur séjour pour découvrir la culture japonaise. Toutefois des événements tragiques se succèdent et un individu suspect rôde aux alentours. La peur s'installe dans l'équipe alors qu'ils doivent affronter sur la glace leurs adversaires. -- Un roman de divertissement qui propose une enquête un peu simpliste mais qui saura sans doute plaire aux amateurs de hockey. [SDM].

It was Sarah who spotted the first body… The Screech Owls’ journey to Vancouver had begun as an innocent hockey road trip. They had come to play in the new “3-on-3” shinny tournament. But when the team headed out to sea to watch the first whales of the season return to the West Coast, the dream trip turned into a horrifying adventure. It was Travis who spotted the second one… Two bodies – one a dolphin, one a man – bobbing in the tide. And when Nish stared down at the floating, twisting body of the man and announced “We know him!” the Screech Owls also knew they were in the middle of a baffling mystery. Slowly, the truth begins to emerge: an international smuggling operation, a heroic dolphin, and a wildly brilliant plan. The Screech Owls are almost enjoying themselves, until they discover their own lives are in danger! The West Coast Murders is the twelfth book in the Screech Owls Series. Check out the Screech Owls’ website at www.screechowls.com

Summer’s coming and school will soon be out! The Screech Owls would love to keep playing hockey, but Muck has a better idea. The Owls are going to learn why so many of the great hockey stars are devoted to the weird and wonderful game of lacrosse. Travis, Sarah, Nish, and their friends discover lacrosse is a lot like hockey, but with a magic all its own. When the Screech Owls meet their strange new lacrosse coach, however, Travis discovers something else. Their home town has a deadly secret. Something terrible once happened out on River Road, and a boy their own age disappeared – probably murdered. Nish is delighted. He’s been looking for the perfect plot for his new horror movie. But as the Screech Owls begin to uncover the truth about what happened, and start filming Nish’s movie, they find they are part of a real-life horror story themselves. Check out the Screech Owls' website at www.screechowls.com.

The team travels to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the middle of a storm, as a young Sidney Crosby teaches the Ice Chips about perseverance and creativity-showing them that you don't need fancy equipment to train hard.